Elsewhere: 'Critical' Transition, Palin 'Obsession,' Bloomberg Gets an Ethics Complaint

One photo from the set called "Alaska" on the Obama campaign's flickr page
One photo from the set called "Alaska" on the Obama campaign's flickr page

The Dow plummeted to below 9,000.

A year ago it was at a record high.

The federal government might now just give banks a "capital injection."

George W. Bush has ordered up transition teams for both candidates, remarking, "It has probably never been more critical that a transition from an administration from one to the next is as seamless as possible."

A blogger at Second Avenue Sagas wonders if the federal government will also bail out the M.T.A., which has a worse debt problem then originally.

In another sign the economy is not recovering, more people are failing to pay their Con Ed bills.

Good government groups have filed an ethics complaint against Michael Bloomberg.

John McCain brought discredited Bridge to Nowhere claim back into his stump speech today.

He has also now figured out how to talk about Bill Ayers without mentioning the name.

In an interview with an Alaskan blog, former top police official of Alaska said Todd Palin had an "obsession" with getting his ex-brother-in-law fired, and that Palin's statement to investigators proves it.

A not-liberal blogger questions the McCain campaign strategy.

The crowds at McCain-Palin rallies continue to agitate.

Obama is up in West Virginia? By eight points?

A report suggests Obama could be the beneficiary of a reverse Bradley effect.

McCain and Palin disagree on the Law of the Sea treaty, which is less obscure than it sounds.

David Paterson appointed the Marisa Lago as the state's new commissioner of economic development.

The Nets stadium will not open in Brooklyn before 2012.

The state is taking action against a Bronx fertilizer plant that apparently smells so bad it makes residents ill.

Esquire breaks with tradition and endorses a candidate. Obama, naturally.

The Economist reports that Chicagoans love Obama, but Arizonanians are not all that attached to McCain.

 

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